Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>:

On 08/10/10 23:04, Peter Simons wrote:

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Do we try to do something like what Xyne suggested--set up a Haskell ABS and publish pre-compiled packages in [arch-haskell]?

...however, in the spirit of Arch (in comparison with the Gentoo which I left 3yrs ago), I consider that having kind of 'Haskell overlay' with binary packages would be very nice...

Yes, I agree that this is probably the best solution. Arch was designed to work that way. How difficult is it to set up a repository? Does anyone know how to do that?

I think there are a few Arch devs reading this list, at least a TU or two, hopefully they can offer some more information.

AFAIU it's not much to it really.  An ABS-like tree (perhaps kept in a Darcs repo for extra points :-) and a place to upload binary packages and the repo DB to.

I support that idea. I would really like to host that on the same server as [community] and [multilib] repos, if the total size of the repositories is not too big, but I fear it would be several gigabytes. I imagine: - keeping ghc + several basic modules in extra/community for bootstrapping - a darcs repo one for the scripts * a script that builds packages (possibly inspired by devtools, for example an analogue of archbuild taking multiple arguments) * a script handling rebuilds (build all reverse dependencies of something in the right order) possibly just an option to the previous script * a script that updates a given collection of PKGBUILDs by calling cabal2arch * a script that moves built packages to the repositories (like commitpkg in devtools) - a darcs repo for the PKGBUILDs * one dir per package, and subdirs $package/trunk, $package/repo (holding the current WIP version of the PKGBUILD and one corresponding to the binary package in repo) * people are supposed to do only a partial checkout of the darcs repo, I know Git can do that, but that said, a full working copy is only a few thousand files. Is darcs as efficient as Git for storage ? I expect the transfer size for a full cloning to be less than 5MB. Leaving xmonad and its dependencies in the main repos in probably fine. -- Rémy